Sentence examples for improbable candidate from inspiring English sources

Funny, improbable name; funny, improbable candidate.

Delgado has dramatically rebounded to become the team's most formidable hitter and a somewhat improbable candidate for National League Most Valuable Player honors.

Written for an ephemeral medium and studded with of-the-moment references (does anyone even remember who Marisa Berenson is anymore?), "Tales of the City" might seem an improbable candidate for immortality.

One of them, K. P. George, has a background that makes him an improbable candidate — he was born in a village in India that still has no electricity or running water.

Playing the role of chief party pooper was Räikkönen: an improbable candidate to win the race even though he started second on the grid behind Hamilton and Ferrari were clearly faster in Texas than they have been in recent weeks.

An alt-rock band hitting it big in Britain after five years, with their third album, would be in itself a talking point, but it was compounded by the fact that Veckatimest was an improbable candidate for top 10 success.

Americans must still choose between two remarkable men but improbable candidates to lead their nation.

Both men were improbable candidates whose willingness to challenge a giant paid off in a transient flash of glory.

The 2012 Republican presidential field was derided as a clown car, what with improbable candidates such as Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain able to claim having been front-runners for the nomination.

And yet the possibility of a Mitt implosion doesn't seem like enough of an explanation for why so many improbable candidates are still in it.

The Booker prize ceremony for literature took place on November 7th; and the Turner prize for modern art will be bestowed, on television, on November 28th.These high-brow love-ins are improbable candidates for today's supposedly dumbed-down television.